Rush Hour: Mamata loyalist joins rebel TMC faction, Assam Rifles camp attacked in Manipur and more

Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra, considered a key loyalist of party chief Mamata Banerjee, resigned from her faction and joined the rebel group. This came a day after Mitra’s wife and two sons were issued summons by the Enforcement Directorate in a municipal recruitment scam case.

Mitra claimed that his decision was not related to the summons and said that his family would cooperate with the central agency in its investigation.

The Kamarhati MLA said he was resigning from Mamata Banerjee’s faction as he was “no longer able to work efficiently” in it. He alleged that the leadership was focused on promoting TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee rather than strengthening the organisation. Read on.

A mob attacked an Assam Rifles camp in Manipur’s Senapati district on Tuesday night after security forces launched an operation against suspected armed cadres earlier in the day. While the mob allegedly threw stones, damaged property and set vehicles on fire, no injuries were reported.

The Assam Rifles had launched a patrol and search operation near Makuilongdi based on intelligence inputs about the presence of cadres of the armed Naga group, NSCN(I-M), outside designated camps, the defence ministry said.

The NSCN(I-M), or the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, has been under a ceasefire...

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